by faster | Jun 16, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: Center for Biological Diversity DATE: June 16, 2020 SNIP: After a contentious 12-hour meeting, the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission rejected conservation proposals to adopt a uniform 24-hour trap check time for all wildlife and to ban beaver trapping on...
by faster | Dec 29, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: The Guardian DATE: December 29, 2019 SNIP: The survival of eight endangered and threatened species, including four kinds of endemic fish, is in doubt in Arizona, as massive quantities of groundwater are extracted to construct Donald Trump’s border wall. The...
by faster | Dec 24, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: New York Times DATE: December 24, 2019 SNIP: As the state of Virginia prepared for a major bridge and tunnel expansion in the tidewaters of the Chesapeake Bay last year, engineers understood that the nesting grounds of 25,000 gulls, black skimmers, royal terns...
by faster | Dec 22, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: Voice of America News and New York Times DATE: December 22, 2019 SNIP: Ecuador declared a state of emergency Sunday after a barge carrying nearly 2,300 liters of diesel fuel sank at the Galapagos Islands. A crane collapsed while loading fuel onto the ship at a...
by faster | May 28, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: Independent and MongaBay DATE: May 28, 2019 SNIP: An Instagram-fuelled craze in Japan for keeping otters in cafes and as pets is driving a deadly surge in poaching the animals from the wild – driving them to the brink of extinction, investigators say. Social...